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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

percent) did not offer any entirely online courses to high school students during the 2015-16 school year. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 The Secret to a Good Robot Teacher | The New York Times → Why is educational technology such a disappointment? public high schools (42.5 percent offered ‘all classes online.’

EdTech 150
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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” ” (This reminds me of this wretched “ thought experiment ” posted in 2015: “How Soylent and Oculus Could Fix The Prison System.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core.